Department of Justice attorney Sean Martin, representing the Forest Service, told Sullivan the 2015 range analysis was designed to improve habitat for catchfly, a species first documented in 2004 that has survived more than 200 years of cattle and horse…
In short, to blame the fires in California on the source of a fire’s ignition are attempts by politicians and bureaucrats to mislead the public’s attention away from their culpability for their errant policies that have created the conditions…
The bill also required the CPUC to work with utilities to mitigate wildfire risks, including putting transmission lines underground if necessary. The bill passed through both state legislative chambers, but Brown vetoed the bill in September 2016. Michael Bastasch Daily Caller AS CALIFORNIA…
One of their most effective arguments, as they fought the Obama monument, was the idea that its designation was more a marketing tool than an effort to protect the pristine beauty of area–that its purpose was a promotional hook to…
The statute may have been written with good intentions, but it often punishes landowners in ways that have nothing to do with recovering species. The act makes enemies out of the private landowners who provide the majority of habitat for imperiled…
As flames consumed mountain ranges and smoke filled the air, an equally destructive wildfire of public opinion raged through the affected community as it became apparent that the U.S. Forest Service had the capability to extinguish the fire, but chose…
Our informant’s accounts are not unusual, and seem to align with other whistleblower descriptions of lawlessness, rampant nepotism and abuse among the BLM’s top law enforcement officials, most notably, Daniel P. Love, the disgraced Special Agent in Charge (SAC) who,…
After spending many summers on Crooked Lake in the U.P., we finally purchased our own lakefront property in 2010. Like generations of Michiganians before us, we planned to use the water for boating and fishing. We were living our dream. Until…
...U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...diverted the stream onto its own land. Two days before Christmas, the newly re-routed waterway jumped its banks, sent a torrent of mud and water across Patch of Heaven, and did over $90,000 worth of damage.…
"Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with protecting the environment. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated." John Eidson American Thinker The hidden agenda…